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100 Escudos
| Issuer | Banco de Angola |
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| Year | 1972 |
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| Currency | Escudo (1958-1977) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is dominated by a detailed intaglio vignette of a date palm rising against a tropical landscape, with an oil palm fruit cluster in the left foreground and lush tropical foliage extending across the centre. Fine guilloche rosette patterns occupy the left and right margins, with the numeral 100 printed in large format at both lower-left and upper-right corners against a warm ochre and brown underprint. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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Angola's 1972 series came out under Portuguese colonial administration, less than three years before independence transformed both the country and its currency. Thomas De La Rue had supplied Angolan notes for decades by this point — the relationship was a standard colonial arrangement, with design and production centralized in London while the issuing authority remained nominally in Luanda.
Pick 101 is not rare, but condition is the real issue with this type: the 142 × 71 mm format and the paper stock used by De La Rue in this period are prone to toning along the fold lines, and heavily circulated examples frequently show ink abrasion at the central crease.